
Art Is Not a Thing is a podcast series about art as a practice of critical inquiry, knowledge production and world-building. From media art, bio-art, sound art to digital activism, speculative design, or data storytelling, the series delves into artistic work that reflects on, questions, and reimagines our practices in and of the world.
The series is developed in collaboration with Radio Ö1.
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| Publishes | Monthly | Episodes | 24 | Founded | 2 years ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Categories | TechnologyArts | |||

In this episode, host Ana-Maria Carabelea is joined by artist Iz Paehr to talk about inherently ableist technologies. Their work Feeling Virtual: An Archive of Touch looks at how digital technologies can be used to make cultural heritage more accessi... more
In this episode, host Ana-Maria Carabelea is joined by researcher and lecturer Alex Damianos and architect John Palmesino of Territorial Agency. Two years after the Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy's decision to reject the proposal to recogni... more
Using both the conditions and limitations of the photographic medium, Trevor Paglen's investigations into state surveillance, military operations, and data collection raise questions about truth, deception, and imagination. In this episode, Hannah Ba... more
In this episode, Hanna Balber talks with architect Marina Otero Verzier about the environmental cost of data centres. Challenging the image of the 'cloud' as an immaterial entity, her project, Computational Compost, uses heat from computer servers to... more
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The show centers on art as a critical practice that interrogates technology, society, and ecological systems. Across episodes, conversations orbit digital infrastructures, AI, surveillance, post-colonial museum practices, and imaginative futures where art and technology intersect with community needs. Guests are typically artists, researchers, and architects who tackle big-picture topics like data centers' climate impact, the ethics of AI, decolonial curation, and robotics-informed art. A notable strength is the seamless pairing of theoretical critique with hands-on projects, from solar-powered wearables to robot-assisted art and computational compost systems, offering listeners a rich blend of speculative design and tangible demonstrations... more
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Recent guests on Art Is Not a Thing include:
1. Trevor Paglen
2. Marina Otero Verzier
3. Simon Weckert
4. Nora Al-Badri
5. Paula Gaetano Adi
6. Sarah Ciston
7. Yulia Sion
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